Stress, Incompetence, and more stress - Line Cook The Cheesecake Factory Employee Review

Incompetent managers making stupid decisions such as this: Management foolishly hired two new people to pizza; thus, leaving me to fend for myself. While I was being overloaded with salads/sandwiches, the two guys in pizza stood there helplessly with nothing on their screen. While they couldn't do anything to help, the idea of hiring two people to pizza instead of an extra to salad/sandwiches was an incompetent thing to do, and it only added to the stress of working inside a hot, nasty kitchen. Working in the salad station was/is a trap, and I see why hardly anyone lasts in that station without either transferring or quitting completely. Salad/Sandwiches must remember all the ingredients for EVERY salad. Sounds easy until you see that there are far too many salads to remember by heart. Management would not allow you to move on to another station unless you remember salads that not even the management knows. It was simply their way of keeping a coworker confined to salad/sandwiches...and now I see why other coworkers avoided working over there. . High stress was to be expected, but hardly getting help (being a female worker) was ridiculous. I had to operate both salad/sandwiches when both screens were packed full of orders, and the management expected me to literally do all of those things at once. When overwhelmed with work, I was told that it was my fault for not being organized. Yeah, excuse me for not having four extra arms. I wanted a clerical position, but I soon found out that moving to that position wasn't going to happen since the salad/sandwiches position is a TRAP. Management regularly allowed orders pass the closing hour, even after the kitchen closed. At certain locations, management made up rules---basically trying to flex their managerial muscles on coworkers who they felt they could. Many other male coworkers (when frustrated) would throw serious fits of rage, (slamming things, bouts of swear words etc), but those same coworkers seemed to have kept their jobs....coworkers who worked there for YEARS. When I became angry, I was written up twice and threatened with suspension---which ultimately left ended with a subtle "you're fired". Servers were at times more annoying than guests with asking for salads before they would even appear on the screen, and often getting orders wrong which resulted in me stopping my rush flow to make side salads....yet they wondered why salads were coming out late most of the time.